"male or female, to be named an All-American by ""Parade"" magazine four times. Averaging 32.8 points and 15.0 rebounds a game, Miller was Street & Smith's national High School Player of the Year in both 1981 and 1982. In her senior year she scored 105 points in a game against Norte Vista High School. She set California state records for points scored in a single season (1156), and points scored in a high school career (3405). At the University of Southern California (USC), the 6 ft. 2 in. (1.87 m) Miller played the forward position. She was a four-year letter"
"respectively), Miller then went on to teach Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students. She also studied for a year at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought toward a PhD and from 2009 to 2010 at the Yale School of Drama for an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. Miller lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts teaching and writing. Miller told a reporter from ""The Guardian"" that she has been inspired by a lot of books, poetry and authors, including David Mitchell, Lorrie Moore, Anne Carson and Virgil. ""The Song of Achilles"", Miller's debut novel, was released in September"
"and was formally inducted on August 13 of that year. Although born in Chicago, Illinois, Cooper-Dyke grew up in South Central Los Angeles, California. Cooper-Dyke is the daughter of Mary and Kenny Cooper. Her father left the family when she was only six years old, leaving her mother to raise eight children. Cooper-Dyke attended the University of Southern California and played on their women's basketball team for four years, winning NCAA championships in 1983 and 1984 with star teammate Cheryl Miller, but left in 1986 before earning a degree. She played on international women's basketball teams in Spain and Italy"
"United States. Miller moved a lot as a little girl, growing up mostly in Lexington, Kentucky, before she started high school in State College and finished at Maclay School in Tallahassee, Florida. Miller very briefly attended Boston University before attending Rhodes College for her Freshman year. She then transferred to the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is a sister of Kappa Delta sorority and was featured in a story in Kappa Delta's newsletter ""The Angelos"". In 2006, Miller dropped out of college and moved to Hollywood to pursue her career full-time. In addition to acting, she has training in"
"in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado. Meredith Miller Meredith Miller (born 26 December 1973) is a Cyclo cross and road cyclist from United States. She was educated at Guilford High School, where she graduated in 1992, and went on to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison and San Francisco State University, where she earned a B.S. and an M.A. in kinesiology in 1996 and 2002 respectively. Miller competed in track athletics in high school and soccer in both high school and college. After graduating from college she played semi-professional soccer for a team in Madison for one season before the team"
"and ran a popular YouTube account where she posted videos of herself covering modern hits. In 2011, Miller placed seventh out of over 1,000 contenders in the female solo category at the Assemblies of God National Fine Arts Festival in Phoenix, Arizona. She received scholarship offers from three Christian universities, including her top choice, Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas. Miller did not accept any of the colleges' offers, and instead decided to audition for ""American Idol"" upon completing her high school studies. Miller auditioned for the twelfth season of ""American Idol"" in September 2012 at the Prudential"
"Number 7 in the world) and Mary Pierce, which earned her reputation for being a “young player on the rise.” When she played at the Open against Monica Seles – a game that was televised – she accrued a whole slew of new fans, due to her impressive playing and attractiveness. After the 1998 US Open, Miller made the decision to attend college at University of Michigan, where she received a Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) and Master of Accounting degree at University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Following her tennis career, she worked at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Fenway Sports"
"Award."" Miller was born in Reddell in Evangeline Parish to Cleophas Miller (1888–1971), a railroad employee, and the former Isabelle Michot (1895–1975). Miller graduated from Vidrine High School in Evangeline Parish and then served in World War II in the Army Air Force as a navigator on B-29 Superfortress's. He was reactivated as a first lieutenant during the Korean War. Between the two wars, Miller graduated from the institution now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then Southwestern Louisiana Institute) in 1947. He then graduated from the Loyola University Law School in New Orleans in 1949. Miller practiced"
"Meredith Miller Meredith Miller (born 26 December 1973) is a Cyclo cross and road cyclist from United States. She was educated at Guilford High School, where she graduated in 1992, and went on to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison and San Francisco State University, where she earned a B.S. and an M.A. in kinesiology in 1996 and 2002 respectively. Miller competed in track athletics in high school and soccer in both high school and college. After graduating from college she played semi-professional soccer for a team in Madison for one season before the team disbanded, following which she was introduced"
"her M.A. in Indic Studies from 1962 to 1964. During this period, she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was awarded the Montague Philosophy Prize, and was awarded her B.A. ""magna cum laude"" at Barnard in 1962. Miller proceeded to earn a Ph.D. in Indic Studies, with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. She was one of the last of the era of scholars trained by the W. Norman Brown and Stella Kramrisch, her two supervisors. The department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College in New York City was the site of her floreat; she"
"up until her freshman year of high school when they moved to Deerfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She attended Deerfield High School and graduated in 1988. She then attended Purdue University, but graduated from the University of Illinois earning a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She later earned her Master's of Science degree in Industrial Relations from Loyola University-Chicago. While working for manufacturing company creating diversity programs for their employees she continued her education at Loyola University-Chicago, where she received her Master’s of Science degree in Industrial Relations. After finishing her education she went to work at her father’s"
"attending Alabama State University. Miller realized she spent all of her free time acting, so after graduation she pursued that at Alabama State. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of California, Irvine. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London, as well as at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. After appearing on the HBO Comedy ""Arli$$"" (1996), and on the CBS drama ""Michael Hayes"" (1997), Miller went on to stardom as a cast member of the Warner Brothers hit show ""Felicity"" (1998), playing smart and stylish Elena Tyler. Recently, she was named as one of"
"first for an American woman since 1977. Cheryl Bridges Cheryl Bridges, now Cheryl Treworgy, is an American former long-distance runner who once held the American and world record in the marathon, racing in the 1960s and 1970s. Cheryl Bridges was born December 25, 1947 in Indiana. She began her running career as a sophomore at North Central High School in Indianapolis. In her senior year in high school, she competed in the national cross-country championships. In 1966, she became the first female athlete in the U.S. to receive an athletic scholarship to a public university — Indiana State University. She"
"In 1986, he helped in founding the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton. Eventually he became a professor emeritus and senior research psychologist at Princeton. He also directed the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Science. Miller had honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex (1984), Columbia University (1980), Yale University (1979), Catholic University of Louvain (1978), Carnegie Mellon University (in humane letters, 2003), and an honorary DSC from Williams College (2000). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957, the National Academy of Sciences in 1962, the presidency of the Eastern Psychological Association in 1962, the presidency"
"High School diploma in Mexico City, Miller began her higher education studies in philosophy at the Aix-Marseille University in France. Yet after a few months of struggle with the language and dislike for her chosen major, she decided to drop school and return to Mexico City. During her time in France, Miller was once again exposed to cinema. In addition to the upper division courses that she studied at Aix-Marseille, she enrolled in numerous film history electives that, for the first time, excited her about the possibility to major in film. This idea was reinforced after studying the works of"
"win the gold medal and the world championship. Every one of the starters achieved double-digit scoring in the final game, led by Cheryl Miller who had 24 points along with 15 rebounds in the championship game. Coach Yow and her two sisters are natives of Gibsonville, North Carolina. They were all three active in collegiate sports. Deborah Yow is the athletic director at North Carolina State University, and Susan Yow coached women's basketball at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Kansas State University, Drake University, East Tennessee State University, Providence College, and Belmont Abbey College. Susan Yow was in"
"changed their last name to ""Miller"". He was educated at St Aloysius' College in Sydney, where he met his future colleague, Sir Gustav Nossal. Miller studied medicine at the University of Sydney, and had his first experience of laboratory research in the laboratory of Professor Patrick de Burgh where he studied virus infection. In 1958, Miller travelled to the United Kingdom on a Gaggin Research Fellowship from the University of Queensland. He was accepted to the Chester Beatty Research Institute of Cancer Research (part of the Institute of Cancer Research, London) and as a PhD student at the University of"
"a B.A. in history and political science at Australian National University in 1980 and a Ph.D. in philosophy and communication studies at Murdoch University in 1991. In July 2004, Miller became a full-time professor at UCR following a stint as a visiting professor. Formerly, he was a professor in the Departments of English, Sociology, and Women’s Studies, as well as director of the program in film and visual culture. As of December 2008, he chairs the new Department of Media & Cultural Studies. Preceding his professorship at UCR, Miller was a professor at New York University, and held previous appointments"
"can by no means free itself from the metaphysical reading it means to contest. In 1986, Miller left Yale to work at the University of California Irvine, where he was later followed by his Yale colleague Jacques Derrida. During the same year he served as President of the Modern Language Association, and was honored by the MLA with a lifetime achievement award in 2005. Both at Yale and UC Irvine, Miller mentored an entire generation of American literary critics including noted queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Currently, he is Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University"
"educational institutions internationally, including at Columbia College Chicago, the University of Miami, Nova Southeastern University, the Writer's Studio at the University of Chicago, the North Country Institute for Writers of Color, the Hurston-Wright Writers Workshop, and Chicago State University. Born and brought up in Chicago, Illinois, she attended Columbia College Chicago, where she majored in Journalism before going on to study Communications and Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, earning her BA in 1976, having studied under Chinua Achebe and Michael Thelwell, whom she cittes as literary influences in addition to Toni Morrison and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Her"
"the University of Pennsylvania in 1970. She then studied for her master's degree, master of philosophy, and PhD in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, completing her education in 1977. She was one of the last doctoral students of American literary critic Lionel Trilling. She engaged in post-doctoral research at the Uriel Weinreich Yiddish Language and Literature Program at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from 1978 to 1979. From 1976 to 1981 she was an assistant professor of English at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and an associate professor from 1981 to 1984. In 1984 she immigrated to"
"in middle school. Miller was a star at Shoemaker High School before moving on to the University of Texas at Austin. Miller was an All-American, two-time All-State and three-time All-District performer at defensive tackle and also played some offensive tackle. The All-Area Defensive MVP recorded 111 tackles with 10 sacks, 17 stops for loss, 19 pressures, six pass break-ups and two fumble recoveries, returning one 43 yards for a touchdown as a senior at Shoemaker. In three seasons, the team captain collected 264 tackles with 24 sacks. Miller attended the University of Texas at Austin from 2005-2008. At UT Roy"
"she should stay in the South to bring about change. Several months after Miller's murder, a cross was burned at night in front of the Miller family's residence with Grace Miller and her four daughters, including Shirley, and infant son, born after her husband's killing, inside. That same year, Sherrod was among the first negro students to enroll in the previously all-white high school in Baker County. Eleven years later, Grace Miller became the first negro woman elected to a county office, one she continued to hold, . Sherrod attended Fort Valley State College and later studied sociology at Albany"
"Carroll Seminary (later known as Shimer College) from 1860 to 1864. At the Seminary, in addition to his studies, Miller participated in the school's debating club, the Philomathesian Society. In later life he credited the Society's ""lessons in parliamentary law"" for helping him in subsequent challenges. He remained closely attached to the institution throughout his life. Upon exiting the Seminary in 1864, Miller attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, transferring after two years to the University of Michigan, where he tested into the junior class. He completed his bachelor's at Michigan in 1868, and his master's in 1871. While"
"York and attended John Glenn High School in Elwood, New York. Miller attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was active in the comedy troupe Mask and Wig, received his B.A. ""cum laude"" in 1983, and subsequently served as a university trustee. He went to Harvard Law School and received his J.D. in 1986. When Miller graduated from Harvard Law, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 had not yet been adopted and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act did not do enough; despite his academic credentials of graduating near the top of his class, Miller encountered considerable resistance in"
"Cheryl Bridges Cheryl Bridges, now Cheryl Treworgy, is an American former long-distance runner who once held the American and world record in the marathon, racing in the 1960s and 1970s. Cheryl Bridges was born December 25, 1947 in Indiana. She began her running career as a sophomore at North Central High School in Indianapolis. In her senior year in high school, she competed in the national cross-country championships. In 1966, she became the first female athlete in the U.S. to receive an athletic scholarship to a public university — Indiana State University. She graduated in three years with a degree"
"San Diego, and took to busking in the streets playing jazz flute. After two years at UCSD, she transferred to Oberlin College in 1987, before moving to Chicago in 1990. In Chicago she played on the streets and worked for Third World Press, a publishing house devoted to black culture. She met members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and soon started playing with the all-women AACM ensemble Samana. Mitchell returned to school in 1993 and then again in 1996, completing her BA at Chicago State University in 1998; she earned her Master's from Northern Illinois University"
"of evolution is compatible with a belief in God; and ""Only a Theory"", which explores ID and the ""Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District"" case as well as its implications in science across America. Miller graduated from Rahway High School in Rahway, New Jersey before attending Brown University. At Brown, he received his Sc.B. in biology in 1970. He earned his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1974. From 1974 to 1980, he taught at Harvard University. His research involves problems of structure and function in biological membranes, often involving electron microscopy. In May 2014,"
"of that same year. In 1988, she moved to Philadelphia and worked as a secretary for ""The Philadelphia Daily News"". While there, she wrote letters to the City Editor complaining about what she considered the biased coverage of people of color. Finally fed up, Miller gave her two-week notice, and enrolled at Temple University to major in journalism. She graduated with a 3.88 GPA, causing her to often joke, ""Just goes to prove, the only thing I missed by not going to high school was the prom."" Miller worked for a year for the ""Virginian-Pilot"" in Norfolk, Virginia, then moved"
"Kenny Miller (basketball) Kenneth Allen ""Kenny"" Miller Tolbert (born December 27, 1967) is a former professional basketball player. He attended Morgan Park High School on Chicago's South Side. Miller (a.k.a. The Big Mil) was the 1988 NCAA Division I men’s basketball season rebounding leader, the first freshman in the history of the NCAA to do it. In 2001, he received dual citizenship with Spain. Miller played at Loyola University where he won First Team All-MCC (Midwest Collegiate Conference), MCC Newcomer of the Year and the 1988 rebounding title. Miller played in the Continental Basketball Association, Global Basketball Association, NBA, Paris"
"track & field, Miller competed in events such as the 110m hurdles (PR of 14.38 s), triple jump (PR of 12.65 m), and javelin throw (PR of 37.24 m). Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Miller was listed as the No. 15 weakside defensive end in the nation in 2007. He chose Texas A&M over offers from Florida, Ole Miss, Oklahoma and Texas Tech. Miller attended Texas A&M University, where he played for the Texas A&M Aggies football team from 2007 to 2010. As a freshman at defensive end in 2007, he was named Freshman All-Big 12 by ""The Sporting"
"schools as a constitutional issue, and the white-dominated Virginia state legislature and school districts promoted ""massive resistance"" to the ruling. This was a formative experience and she supported civil rights during her career. Miller later earned an M.A. degree in the summer Teacher's College program at Columbia University in 1962 and a Ph.D in education from the University of Pittsburgh in 1973. She joined the education faculty at Norfolk State, becoming a professor and head of the Department of Early Childhood/Elementary Education. In 1999 she retired and was named Professor Emeritus. Miller began to get involved in politics, joining the"
"graduated with honors from Washington and Lee University in 1972 with a degree in economics. After graduating he served as a military intelligence officer overseas. He then pursued graduate studies in philosophy in the Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University while working part-time in accounting. Prior to joining Legg Mason in 1981, he served as treasurer of the J.E. Baker Company, a major manufacturer of products for the steel and cement industries. Miller received his CFA designation in 1986. He joined Legg Mason Capital Management in 1981 as a security analyst. In 2007, he was appointed the chairman of the"